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CAROL MORE
Carol is a graduate of our OM yoga teacher training program, certified and registered with the Yoga Alliance at the 200 hour level and has been mentoring with Sandy Gross. She has taught our Community classes and now teaches a weekly OM yoga/Restorative Yoga ~ Technique 1 class on Sunday afternoons.
She discovered yoga through her desire to age with dignity, grace and beauty. Always physically active, reasonably healthy with a never-ending curiosity to learn new things, she is passionate about living a balanced life of work and play. She endeavors to thread her practice into every corner of life–from riding her Harley motorcycle, rocking out or buttoning up her business suit. She truly understands the benefits of linking mind, body and spirit and the honest hard work and challenge of just ‘being’.
Carol is known for her non-traditional music playlists–claiming all music is “yoga music” and ‘it’s all good if it deepens your practice’. She confesses she has some traditional yoga music on her iPod. Carol has been fortunate to discover and explore the teachings of rare yogic diamonds, (in person and written word) Cyndi Lee, David Nichtern, Sandy Gross, Joe Miller, Sarah Trelease, Simon Park, David Romanelli, Bryan Kest, BKS Iyengar and every single one of her students and fellow teachers at Evolution Yoga Studio who have dazzled her journey from day one.
How has your practice evolved?
This will be a multi-faceted answer but what I consider a huge self-discovery
ah-ha moment for me. In a world of 'pretty and perfect, right now!' it's safe
to try something you're 100% sure you can be instantly successful. Yoga has
definitely taught me patience and courage. Evolving takes both patience and courage.
I'm a relatively new (mature) practitioner compared to my peers, never been a dancer
or a gymnast and I've never thought of my poses as pretty or perfect but I've
discovered a consistent and satisfactory path to evolving my yoga practice.
The path is awareness through breathwork. When you're in the breath, you're right there
in the experience. Nothing else matters.
Yoga has taught me to accept my practice, and my progress as it evolves. My pace. My practice. My progress. I've been taught and embrace what's known as the 'intelligent edge'-- where I am today but keenly listening
to my body as I ask for 'more' maybe tomorrow.
You know how Oprah asks the question "what do you know for sure?" Well I know for sure I will do adho mukha vrksasana (a handstand) in the middle of the room one day. I know for sure I will never be on the cover of Yoga Journal (unless they do an issue dedicated to mature yoga teachers - don't laugh. I remain hopeful). I know for sure my progress towards the full expression of a pose is 100% possible. I know for sure I am injury-free and pain-free because of my breath-led, evolutionary mindset. I know for sure yoga heals and has recycled my body into a much younger 'Carol'. I know for sure my body will yield to progress in my practice. And I know for sure....continued success and learning in my personal practice will be shared with my students.
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